Why would anyone want to carry around something like this? Doesn't seem very practical.
My wife used to work at a public library, and every day this guy would come in to surf pr0n on the library's computers who had the handset from a standard cheapo cordless phone like you would buy at Wal-Mart duck-taped to his belt; like he thought that people would think it was one of them new cell phones and be impressed. This was in 1997.
The line to our house simply couldn't do touch tone. I don't know why. (I was just a kid!) But we had to have our line 'upgraded' to support it.
I think this was relatively common. Not sure what the technical reason for it was; I should ask my dad, he was a phone company engineer back when there was only one phone company. (Actually there was never really only one.. but you know what I mean)
Remember the phones that had buttons, but still clicked like a rotary? Those were for folks who wanted buttons but who didn't or couldn't upgrade their lines.
I also recall standalone touch-tone generators. Just a touchpad on remote-control-sized box with a speaker that you could hold up the the microphone of a rotary phone and dial the number. I honestly don't know if these were actual consumer devices or some sort of technician's/phreak's tool.
Phishing is really just a form of social engineering. It's old as hell too, people have been making cold calls claiming to be from the bank, mortgage co, etc.
Not to mention that we have the early threat of fake logon screens to thank for the fact that on NT and all later versions of Windows you must hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE before logging on. What's the difference between that and phishing, except for the introduction of websites into the picture?
I just don't care about ease of use of server tools. That is not what servers are for. They are for providing services. If you are choosing a server based on the ease of use tools, then unless you are planning to hand a server over to someone with minimal experience (a bad idea), you are making a bad decision
But that's the entire point of choosing Windows as a server, right? I'm pretty sure it was one of the the original selling points, when Windows NT mainly competed against NetWare: "Why not use the file server that has the same UI as your Windows client boxes? Desktop service technicians can be upgraded into server admins with a very smooth learning curve."
Which is why forking is such a strong part of the Linux development model.
But doesn't GPL actually take away most of reasons why someone would want to fork? If you can't make a closed fork, then many people who would otherwise want to make one are instead motivated to either contribute back to the main project, or not use it at all.
For some reason I read the headline as "Computer-Based Guitar Tuning", and thought that this article must be about some kind of a homebrew gadget that tunes your guitar for you with little motors attached to the tuning pegs, and controlled via USB or WiFi. Imagine a Beowulf cluster...
.. is destined to be the next great sex symbol for nerdy sci-fi fan adolescents and straight-men-preteding-to-like-indie-art-movies alike. Comic Book Guy and The Critic both agree that she's hot. Look out Natalie Portman and Liv Tyler. Move over Daria and that chick from "Ghost World". And she can sing, too.
suspect, and here I'm out on a limb, that it's a fundamental architecture issue. PHP simply did not have global thread-safety as a design goal. And thus it could be difficult to remedy at this late date, especially if it's to be done without breaking things.
Which, as I have remarked earlier, is a sympton of PHP never having been designed to run on Windows.
Maybe there's an opportunity for someone to get famous by writing PHP interpreters in both Java and C#, and then they can sell it to all the PHB's out there who can't decide whether to go with J2EE or.NET. That should take care of the threading issues, although it would almost certainly break existing extensions written in C/C++. I am only half kidding.
However, the issue is that many PHP extensions are not threadsafe. This becomes an issue on Windows because the default MPM is multithreaded, while the default MPM for UNIX is multiprocess.
It all goes back to Windows NT being designed from the beginning to enourage the use of threads, while Unix always favored multiple processes.
I think you mistake COBOL for ALGOL. The latter was indeed advertised for it's "ease of use" and it started a long line of (supposedly) user friendly languages, through it direct descendant - Basic - to contemporary Visual Basic and AppleScript.
ISTR that any language with precedural logic more advanced that GOTO is descended from ALGOL 60. This includes not only the languages you mention but also Pascal, ADA, C (which just replaces verbose words like BEGIN with characters like "{") and therefore everything based on C. Not to mention that concepts from ALGOL eventually found their way back into FORTRAN and COBOL.
I see no reason why a user of Free software should ever need to search on webpages for software (except for initially downloading the distribution).
Yeah, but not everything that someone might want to use on Linux is free software. Few commercial software shops are would put all their proprietary packages into your OneTrueGlobalPackageSystem.
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The first browser was called Mosaic, not Mozilla.
Mosaic was a separate, freely-available browser from which the company known as "Mosaic Communications" stole the name and the original developers. They very quickly changed their name to "Netscape" but kept the "Mozilla" name internally. The domain 'mcom.com' is still owned by Netscape/AOL/Time-Warner/etc.
The real Mosaic codebase itself apparently found its way into Internet Expolorer, if you believe IE's "help/about" screen.
n the Windows world, developers can just embed the IE browser using an ActiveX control. I'll bet that a lot of commercial developers would have no problem dropping the IE control in exchange for a Gecko control
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Peoples memories of Netscape and the brand are not good now, why bother with this, why not just back the Mozilla name and at the same time unite to take on Internet Explorer.
Maybe they should just back the "Firefox" brand. "Mozilla" is too geeky and too much of an in-joke for mainstream people to ever like the name.
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Branding is important so I think that they should perhaps promote both project by naming it Netscpae Firefox.
I think the name "Netscape" actually carries negative currency. I know people who still harbor such residual hatred for Netscape 4 that the only reason they happily use Firefox now is because it doesn't say "Netscape" on it anywhere. And these people are developers!
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<i>Mozilla -> Netscape Mozilla -> Firefox Firefox -> Netscape</i>
"Mozilla" (original by "Mosaic Communications") | Netscape 1-4 | Mozilla (the open source one) | +oooo+oooooooooo+oooooooooo+ | | | Netscape 6,7 Firefox Other gecko browsers | +o+oooooooooooooo+ | | Mozilla Netscape ? (next version) (what this article is about)
The probability of someone with an agenda murking up an article on the halting problem is significantly lower than with an article on Islam
Maybe that's true of the more academic aspects of CS, but what about topics like DRM or Unix vs. Windows that are just as controversial in the geek world as politics and religion?
Actually, even Wikipedia can't spell it right, that fact alone hinting at the lack of wisdom of using Wikipedia to be a credible source of data. OK, so DNS can't support the æ ligature needed to get the correct spelling: Wikipædia. But they could at least have used the A and E as separate characters: Wikipaedia.
I assume you are joking, and probably also from the UK. Nevertheless:
(1) Technically DNS names are 8-bit data. There is no requirement that they be ASCII or even any sort of text at all. See RFC 2181.
(2) The most common spelling of "encyclopedia" in the U.S. does not have a ligature. "Encyclopædia" looks foreign to most people here.
The Dos/Windows command prompt was, is, and always will be a joke. It feels like it was written by someone who never had to be productive at a command prompt. It hasn't had command completion until recently
Guess that depends on your definition of recent. Completion has been there since Windows NT.
The "laser gun" effects in Blake's 7 were apparently made by gaffa-taping a microphone to an electricity pylon, and bashing one of the other legs of the pylon with a big spanner.
They used the exact same thing for Star Wars, and Ben Burtt claims to have invented it. Don't know much about British TV - which came first, Blake's 7 or Star Wars?
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Why would anyone want to carry around something like this? Doesn't seem very practical.
My wife used to work at a public library, and every day this guy would come in to surf pr0n on the library's computers who had the handset from a standard cheapo cordless phone like you would buy at Wal-Mart duck-taped to his belt; like he thought that people would think it was one of them new cell phones and be impressed. This was in 1997.
The line to our house simply couldn't do touch tone. I don't know why. (I was just a kid!) But we had to have our line 'upgraded' to support it.
I think this was relatively common. Not sure what the technical reason for it was; I should ask my dad, he was a phone company engineer back when there was only one phone company. (Actually there was never really only one.. but you know what I mean)
Remember the phones that had buttons, but still clicked like a rotary? Those were for folks who wanted buttons but who didn't or couldn't upgrade their lines.
I also recall standalone touch-tone generators. Just a touchpad on remote-control-sized box with a speaker that you could hold up the the microphone of a rotary phone and dial the number. I honestly don't know if these were actual consumer devices or some sort of technician's/phreak's tool.
Phishing is really just a form of social engineering. It's old as hell too, people have been making cold calls claiming to be from the bank, mortgage co, etc.
Not to mention that we have the early threat of fake logon screens to thank for the fact that on NT and all later versions of Windows you must hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE before logging on. What's the difference between that and phishing, except for the introduction of websites into the picture?
I just don't care about ease of use of server tools. That is not what servers are for. They are for providing services. If you are choosing a server based on the ease of use tools, then unless you are planning to hand a server over to someone with minimal experience (a bad idea), you are making a bad decision
But that's the entire point of choosing Windows as a server, right? I'm pretty sure it was one of the the original selling points, when Windows NT mainly competed against NetWare: "Why not use the file server that has the same UI as your Windows client boxes? Desktop service technicians can be upgraded into server admins with a very smooth learning curve."
Which is why forking is such a strong part of the Linux development model.
But doesn't GPL actually take away most of reasons why someone would want to fork? If you can't make a closed fork, then many people who would otherwise want to make one are instead motivated to either contribute back to the main project, or not use it at all.
For some reason I read the headline as "Computer-Based Guitar Tuning", and thought that this article must be about some kind of a homebrew gadget that tunes your guitar for you with little motors attached to the tuning pegs, and controlled via USB or WiFi. Imagine a Beowulf cluster...
Everyone read the books. NOW.
HHGTTG is more than books. The radio series, TV mini-series, text adventure games, etc., are more ubergeekyunderground than the books.
Iraq has a democratically elected government???
Of course they do... it just wasn't elected by them! It was elected by all the folks back home in the Red States.
.. is destined to be the next great sex symbol for nerdy sci-fi fan adolescents and straight-men-preteding-to-like-indie-art-movies alike. Comic Book Guy and The Critic both agree that she's hot. Look out Natalie Portman and Liv Tyler. Move over Daria and that chick from "Ghost World". And she can sing, too.
suspect, and here I'm out on a limb, that it's a fundamental architecture issue. PHP simply did not have global thread-safety as a design goal. And thus it could be difficult to remedy at this late date, especially if it's to be done without breaking things.
.NET. That should take care of the threading issues, although it would almost certainly break existing extensions written in C/C++. I am only half kidding.
Which, as I have remarked earlier, is a sympton of PHP never having been designed to run on Windows.
Maybe there's an opportunity for someone to get famous by writing PHP interpreters in both Java and C#, and then they can sell it to all the PHB's out there who can't decide whether to go with J2EE or
However, the issue is that many PHP extensions are not threadsafe. This becomes an issue on Windows because the default MPM is multithreaded, while the default MPM for UNIX is multiprocess.
It all goes back to Windows NT being designed from the beginning to enourage the use of threads, while Unix always favored multiple processes.
Anyone who wants to keep his nuts will use Apache2.
I think you mistake COBOL for ALGOL. The latter was indeed advertised for it's "ease of use" and it started a long line of (supposedly) user friendly languages, through it direct descendant - Basic - to contemporary Visual Basic and AppleScript.
ISTR that any language with precedural logic more advanced that GOTO is descended from ALGOL 60. This includes not only the languages you mention but also Pascal, ADA, C (which just replaces verbose words like BEGIN with characters like "{") and therefore everything based on C. Not to mention that concepts from ALGOL eventually found their way back into FORTRAN and COBOL.
don't doubt that China happily will ignore anything Mr Ballmer says. China has nukes, M$ don't (I hope).
But (at least Ballmer hopes) Microsoft's IP "rights" would theoretically be protected by the U.S. Government, which has a lot of Nukes.
I see no reason why a user of Free software should ever need to search on webpages for software (except for initially downloading the distribution).
Yeah, but not everything that someone might want to use on Linux is free software. Few commercial software shops are would put all their proprietary packages into your OneTrueGlobalPackageSystem.
The first browser was called Mosaic, not Mozilla.
N CSAMosaicHome.html
Mosaic was a separate, freely-available browser from which the company known as "Mosaic Communications" stole the name and the original developers. They very quickly changed their name to "Netscape" but kept the "Mozilla" name internally. The domain 'mcom.com' is still owned by Netscape/AOL/Time-Warner/etc.
The real Mosaic codebase itself apparently found its way into Internet Expolorer, if you believe IE's "help/about" screen.
See: http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/
n the Windows world, developers can just embed the IE browser using an ActiveX control. I'll bet that a lot of commercial developers would have no problem dropping the IE control in exchange for a Gecko control
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
Peoples memories of Netscape and the brand are not good now, why bother with this, why not just back the Mozilla name and at the same time unite to take on Internet Explorer.
Maybe they should just back the "Firefox" brand. "Mozilla" is too geeky and too much of an in-joke for mainstream people to ever like the name.
Branding is important so I think that they should perhaps promote both project by naming it Netscpae Firefox.
I think the name "Netscape" actually carries negative currency. I know people who still harbor such residual hatred for Netscape 4 that the only reason they happily use Firefox now is because it doesn't say "Netscape" on it anywhere. And these people are developers!
<i>Mozilla -> Netscape
Mozilla -> Firefox
Firefox -> Netscape</i>
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The probability of someone with an agenda murking up an article on the halting problem is significantly lower than with an article on Islam
Maybe that's true of the more academic aspects of CS, but what about topics like DRM or Unix vs. Windows that are just as controversial in the geek world as politics and religion?
Actually, even Wikipedia can't spell it right, that fact alone hinting at the lack of wisdom of using Wikipedia to be a credible source of data. OK, so DNS can't support the æ ligature needed to get the correct spelling: Wikipædia. But they could at least have used the A and E as separate characters: Wikipaedia.
I assume you are joking, and probably also from the UK. Nevertheless:
(1) Technically DNS names are 8-bit data. There is no requirement that they be ASCII or even any sort of text at all. See RFC 2181.
(2) The most common spelling of "encyclopedia" in the U.S. does not have a ligature. "Encyclopædia" looks foreign to most people here.
The Dos/Windows command prompt was, is, and always will be a joke. It feels like it was written by someone who never had to be productive at a command prompt. It hasn't had command completion until recently
Guess that depends on your definition of recent. Completion has been there since Windows NT.
The "laser gun" effects in Blake's 7 were apparently made by gaffa-taping a microphone to an electricity pylon, and bashing one of the other legs of the pylon with a big spanner.
They used the exact same thing for Star Wars, and Ben Burtt claims to have invented it. Don't know much about British TV - which came first, Blake's 7 or Star Wars?
I made some these bits of electronic music as far back as 1990, how come I'm not on the list?
Itch (commodore 64)
Sounds of Selene (c64, vocals)
A Ship Defines the Ocean (tape manipulations of guitar, keyboard, home-made wind instruments)